2.6 Employee Customer Engagement
Employee engagement is an employee’s involvement
in meeting organization’s goals in the form of ef-
fort, initiative and perseverance (Macey et al., 2011).
The existence of employee customer engagement in a
company will improve relationships and close phys-
ical involvement between employees and customers.
It can bring positive attitudes / behavior towards the
company from both employees and customers. The
thing that must be considered in the service and pro-
curement of complaints is that a good interaction be-
tween customers and bank employees the can create
good connection between the two (Karatepe and Aga,
2016).
H5: There is a positive relationship between Cus-
tomer Engagement Employees and Customer Experi-
ence.
2.7 Digital Banking Innovation
Banks get benefit from digital banking innovation in
improving their performance. This innovation can be
used by customers so that it is beneficial for both par-
ties. Although this innovation is important for bank
services, customers use the innovation independently.
It shows that digital banking innovation must focus
on what customers feel and the impact of innovation
on customers will be a benefit for the banks (Mbama
and Ezepue, 2018). The latest innovations offered by
banks in technology must be able to improve the qual-
ity of services that are equipped with speed, safety
and comfort (Kennedy and Harefa, 2018).
H6: There is a positive relationship between Dig-
ital Banking Innovation and Customer Experience.
2.8 Customer Experience
A new model is always needed in digital banking be-
cause the customers may not get direct services such
as courtesy, friendliness, and personal care. There-
fore, there is a measurement of new service quality
that moderates customer satisfaction in digital bank-
ing (Jun and Palacios, 2016). This study uses sev-
eral measures of service quality (experience, satisfac-
tion, and loyalty). It allows a significant relationship
between digital bank marketing and financial perfor-
mance. Customer experience is a series of interac-
tions between customers, products and companies, or
parts of the organization that give rise to reactions
(e.g. rational, emotional, sensoric, physical, and spir-
itual) (Meyer et al., 2007). H7: There is a relationship
between Customer Experience and Customer Satis-
faction. H8: There is a relationship between Cus-
tomer Experience and Customer Loyalty.
2.9 Customer Loyalty and Financial
Performance
Loyalty is the customer’s trust in a service provider
or service company that allow them to give recom-
mendation to others and give benefit to the company
(Haryeni et al., 2017). The existence of loyal cus-
tomers is needed by the company. Customer loyalty
will greatly help the company’s growth, especially in
the current market competition. Loyal customers are
those who will continually repurchase goods and ser-
vices from the company and will try to recommend
them to others (Hastuti and Nasri, 2014). Loyalty
refers to the customers behavior of making repeated
purchases of goods and services chosen from a com-
pany (Griffin and Herres, 2002).
Financial performance is the result obtained by
management through cooperation with certain par-
ties to collect funds and use them efficiently. Finan-
cial performance is a subjective measure of how well
a company uses existing assets to generate revenue
(Prakarsa, 2016). Financial performance can be mea-
sured by using financial ratios. One of the bank’s fi-
nancial ratios is profitability. The profitability ratio
aims to find out the ability of banks to generate profits
for a certain period (Indonesia, 2014). The ratios re-
lated to earnings are Return on Assets (ROA), Return
on Equity (ROE), and Net Interest Margin (NIM).
H9: There is a positive relationship between Cus-
tomer Experience and Financial Performance H10:
There is a positive relationship between Customer
Satisfaction and Financial Performance. H11: There
is a positive relationship between Customer Loyalty
and Financial Performance.
2.10 Customer Satisfaction
Customer satisfaction is customer’s feeling towards
the impression or performance given by the company
which relates to customer expectations of a product.
If the reality is better than the expectations, the service
provided is considered very satisfying and vice versa
(Febriana, 2016).
Customer satisfaction is the overall customer ex-
perience. Positive customer experience depends on
customer satisfaction that is felt directly and raises
customer loyalty towards the bank (Mbama and
Ezepue, 2018) Customer satisfaction is the main thing
that must be considered by banking service providers
because customer satisfaction is an important aspect
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